Useless Scratch facts # 3:

A speech-to-text extension was being tested in early versions of 3.0 but was scrapped, most likely due to an unresolved issue of it randomly stopping.

The code and assets for it still exist and are even implemented in some mods.

Useless Scratch facts # 2:

Ok

Global custom blocks have been released for Unsandboxed.

Full changelog in the article.

If Scratch-Blocks 2.0 was nicknamed "spork" during development, what should I call this? spatula?

So I can say for certain that Scratch 4.0 will depend on modern Blockly, which for now is being held together by the old GUI code from 3.0

Useless Scratch facts # 1:

The order of the motion category blocks in Scratch 3 was changed from how they appeared in Scratch 2 in the 11th hour.

In the Scratch-Blocks 1.0 developer testing playground, the order is identical to Scratch 2.

I decided to fix this pretty infamous crash.

It's a clear sight better than breaking the entire page, no?

A minor update has been released for Unsandboxed. Full changelog is in the article.

This is actually so funny, the Noggin SVGs aren't compatible with Scratch (pay attention to the eyes) 🤣